NFL Week 9 roundtable: Which teams will rise, fall in second half of season?

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NFL reporters and columnists from USA TODAY Sports picked one team that will rise and one team that will fall in the last two months of the NFL season.

in Tua Tagovailoa's first NFL start last weekend, when touchdowns came from the defense and special teams, too. Miami heads into Sunday's game at Arizona with a three-game winning streak that has pushed it over .500 for the first time since Brian Flores took over as coach. And there's no reason to expect the flow to stop. Can the Dolphins win the NFC East? It's possible. The Patriots are stumbling and the Bills have had some lapses as the current front-runner.

Chicago falling. The Bears , taking a two-game losing streak into Tennessee, seem like they're doing it with mirrors. I mean, take away the improbable comeback victories at Detroit and, then what do you have? Sure, you are what your record says you are. Yet there's also the fact that Chicago is -5 in net scoring. Winning ugly, as quarterback Nick Foles reminded us, is still winning.

Tennessee, meanwhile, has a tough schedule ahead including games at Baltimore, Indianapolis and Green Bay. Can they effectively stop Lamar Jackson or Aaron Rodgers? Houston will seek revenge after an OT loss. The Titans will struggle to rely on generating takeaways to mask a defense that allows 396.9 yards per game and has trouble generating pressure . Derrick Henry will entertain us all, but it may not be enough.

My faller is the San Francisco 49ers, and it’s unfortunate because this team returned a strong roster and aimed to avoid the Super Bowl hangover but hasn't managed to avoid the injury bug. Kyle Shanahan had this group playing well despite all of the holes on the roster, and the hope was the 49ers could tread water until the reinforcements arrived.

 

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